Towards the construction of the World Anti-Doping Agency: Analyzing the approaches of FIFA and the IAAF to doping in sport
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Towards the construction of the World Anti-Doping Agency : Analyzing the approaches of FIFA and the IAAF to doping in sport. / Wagner, Ulrik.
In: European Sport Management Quarterly, Vol. 11, No. 5, 2011, p. 445-470.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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T1 - Towards the construction of the World Anti-Doping Agency
T2 - Analyzing the approaches of FIFA and the IAAF to doping in sport
AU - Wagner, Ulrik
N1 - (Ekstern)
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - This article examines FIFA's and the IAAF's different approaches to doping in sport. Through access to documents of their respective departments working on doping issues and by applying a new institutional theoretical perspective, it is shown that until the mid 1990s FIFA considered doping to be a problem primarily found outside football while the IAAF considered it to be one of the most serious problems facing athletics. These different approaches impacted how the two federations viewed the process leading to the establishment of the World Anti-Doping Agency. Accordingly, the IAAF is termed an "institutional entrepreneur", while FIFA has greater reservations about the new agency. Circumstances such as the close interrelations between the IOC and the IAAF, the competitive relationship between the Olympic Games and the FIFA World Cup, power-relations in the organizational field and intra-organizational dynamics are examined as decisive factors.
AB - This article examines FIFA's and the IAAF's different approaches to doping in sport. Through access to documents of their respective departments working on doping issues and by applying a new institutional theoretical perspective, it is shown that until the mid 1990s FIFA considered doping to be a problem primarily found outside football while the IAAF considered it to be one of the most serious problems facing athletics. These different approaches impacted how the two federations viewed the process leading to the establishment of the World Anti-Doping Agency. Accordingly, the IAAF is termed an "institutional entrepreneur", while FIFA has greater reservations about the new agency. Circumstances such as the close interrelations between the IOC and the IAAF, the competitive relationship between the Olympic Games and the FIFA World Cup, power-relations in the organizational field and intra-organizational dynamics are examined as decisive factors.
KW - Decoupling
KW - Institutional entrepreneurship
KW - IOC
KW - Medical commission
KW - Power
KW - Qualitative document analysis
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84859304376&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/16184742.2011.624107
DO - 10.1080/16184742.2011.624107
M3 - Journal article
AN - SCOPUS:84859304376
VL - 11
SP - 445
EP - 470
JO - European Sport Management Quarterly
JF - European Sport Management Quarterly
SN - 1618-4742
IS - 5
ER -
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